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Proceedings in the Election Court will be broadcast live for the first time after the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service reached an agreement with STV for the hearing to be streamed live on the internet.

The Lord Advocate has been granted an order for the cockpit voice and flight data recorder from a Super Puma helicopter which crashed into the North Sea in 2013 to be made available to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service and Police Scotland for the purposes of investigating the circumstances of the death of the four passengers whose lives were lost, and whether, and if so against whom, to launch a prosecution.